Thursday, December 26, 2013

There's a series going on over at Slate.com called 12 Panel Pitch where story ideas are drown up in 12 panels and presented to readers. The latest is called Meek by scriptwriter Todd Alcott (Antz, etc.) and drawn by cartoonist/illustrator R. Sikoryak

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

We've had postsbefore about octopuses showing up on maps to represent some nefarious global power bent on dominating the world. Here's an honest-to-goodness logo on the NSA's latest spy satellite:
The close-up:
That's got Bond-level villain written all over it.

Let's finish this one off with Jon Stewart justifiably mocking the NSA for its disgusting bravado:

Friday, November 22, 2013

TED Talks are fascinating ~15 minute lectures on a huge variety of topics. I've posted some on this blog. The TED outfit has united animators with speakers of some of those topics to create animated shorts about some of the subjects. And some of those have maps. The first is a section on one about yawning that shows a map-like thing on a subway.

The other is a short debunking the anti-vaccination nonsense and starts with the Earth getting a shot.